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spoˈradically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In isolated cases or instances.
1763Phil. Trans. LIV. 78 Some years it is felt sporadically all the winter. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 121 We find intermittents..existing..sporadically as well as epidemically. 1872Cohen Dis. Throat 97 Although sometimes appearing sporadically, diphtheria is essentially an endemic disease. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 909 Those cases [of meningitis] which though occurring sporadically, resemble the epidemic..form of the disease.
2. In a scattered or dispersed manner; at intervals; occasionally; here and there.
1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. III. xxxii. 352 No snow falls sporadically in any of the eastern systems. 1875E. White Life in Christ iv. xxvi. (1878) 425 That the belief..lingered in the churches sporadically for several centuries. 1885Athenæum 16 May 623/1 The Septuagint does not exist in a critical edition; its Hebrew original has only been sporadically restored. |